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WAGNER Die Walküre - Act 1

Die Walküre’s popular but tricky First Act feels like an action piece because of its hectic beginning and ending. Yet...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2016

Franco Fagioli : Rossini

There’s a perverse irony that the only operatic role Gioachino Rossini wrote for a castrato – Arsace in Aureliano in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016

MOZART La Clemenza di Tito

Mozart composed La clemenza di Tito in great haste for the celebrations marking the coronation of the Habsburg emperor Leopold...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2016

Mitologia

‘Mitologia’ runs the title of the late Alan Curtis’s final Handel recording, a sequence of arias and duets on mythological...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2016

CALDARA The Cervantes Operas

The Spanish ensemble La Ritirata and its Artistic Director (and cellist) Josetxu Obregón present an ingenious programme that simultaneously celebrates...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2016

BELLINI I Capuleti e I Montecchi; Norma

The pacing of Bellini’s dramas is a conundrum that should bother a director as much as the maestro. If a...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 12/2016

A Tribute to Evgeny Svetlanov

Evgeny Svetlanov was a giant among Soviet conductors. Formerly at the Bolshoi Theatre, from 1965 he was Principal Conductor of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016

Alison Balsom: Jubilo

There tends to be a ‘usual suspects’ element to most Christmassy discs, but Alison Balsom’s collaboration with the orchestra of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2016

Danse Macabre

This is a curiously old-fashioned sort of disc – a programme of orchestral pieces by different composers, linked only by...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

SINOPOLI Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol 35

Until a heart attack felled him in 2001, Giuseppe Sinopoli had been a loving and assiduous curator of the ‘Dresden...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016

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